Ray Romano Quotes

People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

I do still get intimidated by certain things.

Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

The married man has all but eliminated that worry from his life, simply because his wife knows all about him: the good, the bad, and the tiny.

Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother.

My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

My wife said to me 'I hope you win... but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don't think it makes up for never saying it when we're alone.

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

I still got my hair, I'm not fat.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

I love standup and I haven't given it up.

I lived at home till I was 29.

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.